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• Safety net-ism: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts.
  Usually parents. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Cryptotechnophobia: The secret belief that technology is more of a menace than a boon.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Voter's Block: The attempt, however futile, to register dissent with the current political system by simply not voting.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Poorochondria: Hypochondria derived form not having medical insurance.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Diseases for Kisses (Hyperkarma): A deeply rooted belief that punishment will somehow always be far greater than the crime
  ozone holes for littering. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• QFM: Quelle Fashion Mistake. "It was really QFM, I mean painter pants?
  That's 1979 beyond belief!" -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Pull-The-Plug, Slice The Pie: A fantasy in which an offspring mentally tallies up the net worth of his parents.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Marriage is the sole cause of divorce.
• Metaphasia: An inability to perceive metaphor. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X